Exploring Self-employment in the European Union
Author: Greet Vermeylen
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Published: 2017
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ISBN-13: 9789289715980
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Greet Vermeylen
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Published: 2017
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9789289715980
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Fondation européenne pour l'amélioration des conditions de vie et de travail
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 9789289715997
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Wieteke Conen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1788115031
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the 1970s the long term decline in self-employment has slowed – and even reversed in some countries – and the prospect of ‘being your own boss’ is increasingly topical in the discourse of both the general public and within academia. Traditionally, self-employment has been associated with independent entrepreneurship, but increasingly it has become a form of precarious work. This book utilises evidence-based information to address both the current and future challenges of this trend as the nature of self-employment changes, as well as to demonstrate where, when and why self-employment has emerged as precarious work in Europe.
Author: Renata Semenza
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1788118456
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book aims at explaining the variance in legal status, working conditions, social protection and collective representation of self-employed professionals across Europe. Despite considerable diversity, the authors observe three strategic models of mobilisation: the provision of services; advocacy, lobbying and the political role; and the extension of collective bargaining. They highlight the new urgent challenges that have emerged including the implementation of universal social protection schemes, active labour market policies likely to support sustainable self-employment, and the renewal of social dialogue through bottom-up organisations to extend the collective representation of project-based professionals.
Author: Colin C. Williams
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1788118839
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dependent self-employment is widely perceived as a rapidly growing form of precarious work conducted by marginalised lower-skilled workers subcontracted by large corporations. Unpacking a comprehensive survey of 35 European countries, Colin C. Williams and Ioana Alexandra Horodnic map the lived realities of the distribution and characteristics of dependent self-employment to challenge this broad and erroneous perception.
Author: Tanja van der Lippe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-11
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1351105302
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A sustainable European workforce has become increasingly relevant in our present day and age. Flexibility and job insecurity are omnipresent; organizational workforces are displaying growing diversity with respect to age, gender, ethnicity and family status; and Europe’s welfare states are delegating more and more responsibility for the well-being of workers to employers. Now more so than ever, organizations need to consider investing in workers to improve their performance and level of satisfaction. These investments can take many forms, including flexible work arrangements, training plans, child-related policies and health programs. The crucial question is how to make this happen. Why do some organizations invest more and others less in their employees? Why do some employees make use of these investments and while others do not? Why do such investments sometimes improve employee performance and satisfaction and sometimes not? This book addresses precisely these questions. The book contributes a new, large-scale survey of 259 organizations, 869 work units, and 11,011 employees in six diverse economic sectors in the Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and UK to study the causes and consequences of organizational investments. This book appeals to undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and lecturers in the fields of Sociology, Business and Management, and Organizational Studies. It will also be useful for practitioners of Human Resource Management and others interested in workforce sustainability.
Author: U. Muehlberger
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-10-17
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 0230288782
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book investigates work relationships on the border between employment and self-employment. Bringing together economic, sociological and legal research approaches, it analyses why firms deploy dependent self-employed workers, why individuals supply this form of work and by which informal and formal mechanism dependency is created.
Author: Valeria Pulignano
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 107
ISBN-13: 2889667383
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2017-12-05
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9264283609
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Missing Entrepreneurs 2017 is the fourth edition in a series of publications that examine how public policies at national, regional and local levels can support job creation, economic growth and social inclusion by overcoming obstacles to business start-ups and self-employment by people from dis
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2019-04-25
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9264497005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 2019 edition of the OECD Employment Outlook presents new evidence on changes in job stability, underemployment and the share of well-paid jobs, and discusses the policy implications of these changes with respect to how technology, globalisation, population ageing, and other megatrends are transforming the labour market in OECD countries.